Cooking World

1. Usual, pure water without gases. Why water? It is easy to explain. Water does not contain calories at all. Drinking a glass of water, 20 minutes before meal, you can get rid off sharp feeling of famine, as water dilutes gastric juice. Besides, water clears an organism, promotes acceleration of metabolism. Our organism needs about 2 liters of water a day. If to keep this figure, the problem of several superfluous kilos will disappear.

2. The group of protein products. Protein is assimilated slowly and gradually. Protein is converted into glucose, but there are no sudden changes of sugar level in blood, and as consequence, sharp attacks of famine. Protein foodstuffs are meat, fish, and dairy products.
Meat and fish products go well in combination with fresh and stewed vegetables. It is the classical combination checked by time – it really gives result.
And only fish is well combined with rice, not giving superfluous kilos.

There is one important point in struggle against superfluous kg - how many you can eat at one sitting and what food stuffs. It is impossible to tell unambiguously, that eating low-calorie foodstuffs will provide growing thin. For example, cookies contain fewer calories, than nuts. But do you happen to see people, who grow stout from nuts? That’s right! … eating cookies, you very quickly get superfluous weight.

Why does it happen this very way? The matter is in content of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. And, the more simple carbohydrates contains a product, the worse it for our organism as a whole, and for the weight in particular. For example, nuts almost do not contain carbohydrates, despite of high fat percentage. But cookies contain saccharose and starch - carbohydrates which are quickly assimilated.

So, it was a small introduction, and we are going to tell you about foodstuffs which will allow feeling like full, healthy and slender.

Rich with provitamin A, olive oil is reliable prophylactic drug against eye diseases. It is perfectly assimilated by an organism. Our body also easily absorbs olive oil. In one and a half hour after its using for food, it will evaporate through pores.

Olives stimulate bile flow.

As olive oil softly regulates liver functioning and is easily assimilated, it is a nice alternative to animal fats and is used for treatment of many diseases.

Use of olive oil reduces risk of tumors in intestines. Oleic acid, suppresses reproduction of timorous cells. It also is famous for its soft aperient influence.

Due to low acidity, olives and olive oil extremely favorably influence stomach condition. Olive fruit carry out function of a biochemical regulator in an organism. Ten olives before meal are the best preventive of stomach ulcer.

Olives are not only a tasty snack, an excellent addition to many dishes, for example, very popular hotchpot, - they are also very useful fruit and source of vitamins and useful mineral substances which in their turn help us to keep our health and beauty.

The researches conducted by the American Institute of Cancer Researches have shown an amazing result: women, who have regularly used olive oil, have 45 % lower risk of breast cancer because of oleic acid, contained in great amounts in olive oil, suppresses activity of a cancer gene called Нег-2/neu.

As olives grow in a hot climate, they produce many polyphenols for protection against baking sun - these substances prevent from clots of blood.

Inhabitants of Mediterranean suffer from cancroid less often than population of cloudier regions. And all of that - because this land is rich with olives.

Laminaria promotes improvement of digestion, strengthens immunity, normalize functions of thyroid gland, central nervous system and cardiovascular systems, removes toxins, radioactive nuclides (owing to alginates) cholesterol, controls vitamin starvation. Laminaria also promotes clearing of blood in an organism.

Doctors all over the world recommend eating laminaria to treat atherosclerosis, hypertensions, ischemic illness, chronic constipation. Laminaria is well for an unloading diet, with the purpose of weight reduction.

Researches have revealed, that laminaria can help to treat oncological illnesses (stops growth of tumors!). That is why the low percentage of breast cancer at Japanese and Chinese women is explained with using for food great amounts of this seaweed.

For many years people procure and use laminaria for food. Ancient Chinese were the first who has talked about unique properties of laminaria. They have even put it on the register of medical products necessary for the person.

Today this seafood enjoys huge popularity in Japan (it is used in more than 300 dishes!) and China, however recently a number of the European countries have also paid attention at it.

The most thick woods of these brown seaweed grow in the cold seas (Arctic Ocean, Northern Atlantic Ocean, Northern sea), in the southern seas laminaria reaches only average size and is considered less useful, considerably conceding on the chemical compound.

Laminaria is a well of vitamins, microelements and amino acids; it is also an excellent means for organism purification. Laminaria, as against usual cabbage, has twice more phosphorus, 11 times more magnesium, 16 times more iron and 40 times more sodium. It also contains polysaccharides, fructose, alginic acid, iodine, vitamins В1, В2, В12, D, A, Е, an ascorbic acid, potassium, dietary fiber, micro- and macroelements.

Cooking of vegetables can not only keep, but also increase their food value for an organism, inform the Italian researchers in «Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry». Though many biologists claim, that raw vegetables are more nutritious, Nikoletta Pelegrini and her colleagues suggest increasing of some useful to health substances in products due to culinary techniques.

Experts have estimated effects of three methods of cookery usually used in the Italian cuisine - boiling, steaming and frying-up - for the contents of vitamins in carrots, vegetable marrows and broccoli.

Boiling and steaming have activated the antioxygenic structures of vegetables, whereas frying-up has caused considerably higher loss of antioxidants in comparison with cookery methods based on water. Substantial increase of glucosinolats - the substances struggling with cancer cells - has been marked in broccoli.

The diet is simple in both understanding, and its performance. Within a week you eat only those products from the list which hangs on a refrigerator. These foodstuffs can be eaten in completely different, and even at first glance, absolutely incompatible combinations. There is only one condition: all ten items should be in your diet every day. Print and hang up on a foreground this list of top-products:

Chicken (brisket)
Eggs
Kefir
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Vegetable marrows
Cabbage (white or cauliflower)
Eggplants
Mushrooms
Apples
Plans: to work off 2 kg for a week

Advantages: products from the list are easily accessible. Everything can be bought in the nearest grocery store or in the market.

Complexity: You can eat no more than 1,5 kg daily.

Eutrophy doesn’t demand change of products’ purchase places. Mentioned below rules will help you to purchase correctly foodstuff needed for a healthy diet.

1. Make the list of purchases beforehand. Planning of purchases will make your shopping more effective and will lower probability of casual purchases.

Making the list of purchases, take into account your diet and select products reasoning from it.

It is desirable that your purchases included: carrots, celery, apples, pears, oranges, fresh berries, grapes, low-fat cottage cheese, low-calorie yoghurts and so on.

2. Buying foodstuff give preference to fresh and not processed ones, as buying half-finished products you lose an opportunity to control mixture of ingredient in them, and it leads to consumption of superfluous amount of fats and calories.

3. Do not buy foodstuff on an empty stomach. Such shopping can lead to purchase of too fat and high-calorific food. If you have to go shopping hungry, then drink before a little water or eat some fruit.

4. Read labels on products. Almost any of them contain information on ingredients and caloric content. These data will help you to get only that food, which you need.

Amino acid cysteine helps to reflect attacks of nocuous microbes. It makes mucous membranes impenetrable for pathogenic organism. The maximum quantity of cysteine is contained in fish, soya products, cereals, cheese, cottage cheese, fowl.

Breakfast should include at least one sour-milk foodstuff - kefir, curdled milk, ryazhenka or yoghurt.

Theoretically each meal should begin and come to an end the vitamin additive. To fill up stocks of vitamin C, which helps an organism to restore after illnesses, you should eat sauerkraut, drink hips broth or tea with a lemon.

For preventive maintenance and treatments of cold doctors recommend a chicken broth – it accelerates regenerative processes in an organism, removes an inflammation in a throat and softens cough. Low-fat meat rich with proteins will provide fast recovery of immune cells.